Nicole turns around and take her leave after she had collected the keys from him, her eyes so bright that the restless alarm bells in his mind rang out loud and clear. This was a woman who should never get involved in a poker game.
She stopped dead when he grabbed hold of her pack. ‘But I’ll take this. Save you carrying it.’
Her face bleached of color. She looked at the bag. Looked up at him, a war going on behind her eyes. Finally she glanced down at her cross-body bag and seemed to make a decision. ‘Okay,’ she whispered, and slipped the pack from her shoulders.
‘Oh,’ he added, because that had been too easy. ‘And your passport. I think I will go with that too.
Her chin kicked up. ‘Why on earth would you want that?’
‘If you’re just going to the apartment, it’s not like you’ll be need
